Tag Archives: YouTube

Every Country In Four Minutes

A man who visited every country in the world has edited down all of his video into a single four-minute clip. Gawker recaps his story: In November 2012, Liverpool resident Graham Hughes successfully became the first person to ever visit all United Nations member states without flying. The Atlas-ian task took Hughes nearly four years, during which he traveled to …

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Happy Pride From YouTube

From YouTube’s official YouTube channel.

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SURVEY: Top LGBT Brands For 2013

Via YouGov’s 2013 Brand Index: Falling out of the top 20 this year: iPad, Disneyland/Disney World, Apple, Advil, LG, Starbucks, Comedy Central, iPod, and Skype. Returning from last year: YouTube, Netflix, Samsung, Aleve, Subway, Target, Kindle, Ford, Android, iPhone and PBS. All 1,100+ brands in the YouGov BrandIndex brand universe were measured with the company’s buzz score, which asks respondents …

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ASAP Science On Muscle Growth

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Racist Comments On Interracial Child Force Cheerios To Close Comments

General Mills was forced to disable commenting on its YouTube channel for Cheerios after racists bombarded a clip featuring an interracial child. The half-minute ad — which has more than 250,000 views — shows a young girl chatting about Cheerios with her Caucasian mother, and later pans to her black father. While the spot garnered an unusual amount of racist …

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NEW JERSEY: Internet “Celebrity” Sought In Grisly Murder Of Gay Man

A homeless viral video star famed on the internet as “Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” is being sought for the murder of a gay New Jersey man. The suspect is identified as Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, a 34-year-old who is well known on Facebook and YouTube. An arrest warrant has been issued for McGillvary in the homicide of Joseph Galfy, Jr. in …

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YouTube Launches Paid Channels

YouTube has launched a monthly paid subscription model for some of its channels. YouTube’s new service asks users to pay as little as 99 cents a month for individual channels. Netflix charges a higher subscription rate but boasts partnerships with studios including Disney, which Thursday granted the streaming service exclusive rights to five popular children’s shows. Paid channels begin rolling …

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Charles Ramsey: Auto-Tuned

Before watching, you might want to check out Slate’s dissection of the “troubling viral trend of the ‘hilarious’ black neighbor.”  Discussed there are Ramsey, Sweet Brown, and Antoine Dodson.

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VIDEO: Antoine Dodson Explains How He’s Always Loved The Art Of A Woman

Earlier today TMZ reported that viral video star Antoine Dodson has renounced his homosexuality and become a Jewish Black Israelite. Below is his interview with HuffPost Live. The crazy gets crazier as the clip goes on.

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Viral Video Star Antoine Dodson: I’m Now Totally Straight Because I Love Jesus And I’m A Jewish Black Israelite

TMZ reports that flamboyant YouTube viral star Antoine Dodson has renounced his homosexuality and now wants a wife. Because he loves Jesus. And he’s now apparently a follower of the racist Black Israelites, an SPLC-certified hate group. Dodson returned to the headlines last year when he denounced gay people that refuse to patronize Chick-Fil-A.  From his Facebook page: I have …

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Shocked Jumps Into YouTube Comments

“I’m waving goodbye to censorship and blacklisting just by typing this message to you, Alexandra. I can go on all night about ‘reminders’ because I have a gig to reclaim on April 24 at Palms Playhouse in Winters CA. What part of ‘other homophobic celebrities’ did you not understand? I’m not homophobic, and I sure aint a celebrity. I’m roadkill …

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YouTube: We’re Shutting Down

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Billboard Magazine Rejiggers Pop Charts

Last week Billboard Magazine altered the methodology of tabulating its pop charts, making a radical change not seen since they began including digital downloads as a ranking criteria. YouTube streaming data is now factored into the Hot 100 (and other genre charts), enhancing a mix of data that includes digital download track sales (and physical singles sales), as tracked by …

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Dutch Men Experience Labor Pains

With the help of a device that simulates the contractions. Click on the “CC” button over at YouTube for captioning in English. (Via Boy Culture)

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We Were All Female

From YouTube’s great ASAP Science channel.

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Popular Pro-Guns Vlogger Murdered

The gun advocate behind one of YouTube’s most popular channels was found murdered last week. Keith Ratliff, who served as the manager of the popular FPSRussia YouTube channel, has died. The 32 year-old Ratliff was found dead of a single gunshot wound to the head, and police are investigating the death as a murder. Ratliff, who was found on Thursday …

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YouTube Strips Billions Of Fake Views From Music Industry Channels

YouTube has stripped billions of fake views from the channels of several of the world’s largest music industry companies.  The views were reportedly purchased from companies that use automated programs to artificially inflate the counts. Google slashed the cumulative view counts on YouTube channels belonging to Universal Music Group, Sony/BMG, and RCA Records by more than 2 billion views Tuesday, …

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YouTube Rewinds 2012’s Viral Stars

I must not be as plugged in as I’d imagined because I don’t recognize half of these people.

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YouTube Launches New Interface

If you’ve been on YouTube this morning, you’ve already noticed today’s change, which is the first update the site has made in quite some time. They write: On YouTube video always comes first, and with this new design the site gets out of the way and lets content truly shine. Videos are now at the top of the page, with …

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VSauce On The Five-Second Rule

From one of YouTube’s most popular educational channels, here’s a wonky explanation of why the five-second rule doesn’t necessarily work.

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